EU trading with Israel and Palestine: Parallel legal frameworks and triangular issues

European Foreign Affairs Review

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 305-326

  Paasivirta, Esa ^a  

^a Legal Service of the European Commission   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84992067477     PISSN: 13846299     EISSN: 18758223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54648/eerr1999034     Document Type: Article

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17. Green notes, 'Occupation does not create any change in the status of the territory, which can only be effected by a peace treaty or by annexation followed by recognition' in L.C. Green, The Contemporary Law of Armed Conflict (Manchester University Press, Manchester 1996) 247.
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